52 Infected After Navy Fails to Prevent Virus Spread on Ship

This article is co-published in conjunction with the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan independent watchdog. Late last month, barely a week after the Navy’s Military Sealift Command assured the public that the coronavirus was not spreading among civilian mariners, the virus ripped through the USNS Leroy Grumman, leaving nearly half the crew and 30 contractors infected, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has learned. One…